Smuggler Archive
Thread: THE FP purchase and transfer macro
Kav wrote:
if your buying 375fp per macro cycle, why do you only /delegate 250?
Is this to offset the loss of points on transfer?
This is a good question...don't the extra 80 points that you don't delegate / lose add up and stop the macro?
By my math, as an Imperial, it goes something like this:
200+125+125+125=575
/delegate 250
resulting loss at Colonel = 295
575-295 = 280
280+125+125=530 <<---- over the 500 point cap...macro should stop here.
By my calculations, the optimal number of points for an Imperial to be /delegating is 317. At the rank of Colonel, this results in a loss of 374 points.
You have to be overt for it to work. Otherwise the menu options won't all be there. You're hitting the Factional Order menu right now it sounds like. Are you overt?
Beware laggy situations!
Sometimes you try to do this, but it will try delegating before it actually has bought it because of the lag. It's fine if you're clicking every time, because you'll see it messed up... but if you're looping the macro, you might miss that it didn't actually delegate.
That's not the command I use in my macro, but if it works, it works. I delegate 100 at a time because the exchange rate is 1.18:1, so I don't "lose" points in the exchange. Then when I max out, I don't buy anotherset but the macro still transfers the 100 points putting me below my cap again.
Manji Oteiko / Corbantis
Thank you, Dark_Prophet for this excellent macro! I have one comment and suggestion though. When I first used this I did not take seriously enough everyone's warnings to be in a place without lag. So, I used this and resigned accidently. Here, I really have to thank Ilucide a million times; without the logging off method I would have lost my Colonel rank! The next day, I finally got the guts to try the macro again, but a very smallchange. Instead of:
/conversationstart;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse0;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse3;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse0;
/conversationstop;
/pause .5
I use:
/conversationstart;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse1;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse3;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse0;
/conversationstop;
/pause .5
Basically, instead of going through the 'I would like to resign' menu, this goes through the 'I would like to become a covert faction member' menu. They both work, it's just that if you suddenly hit lag, this method, instead of resigning you, will simplymake youovert in an hour. However, this is just a small suggestion I had for people with slow computers like me, I really have to give Dark_Prophet props.
k, use this at your own risk... it's killing off too many of our own men on Bria... I guess 3rd party is the only way for now unless someone can figure out the way to get the equivalent of
/ui action conversationResponse9
Since it only goes up to 5... there must be a way to express 9... there must be... someone find it. I've tried everything I can think of. We cannot go with the original anymore, it's too dangerous.
one little tiny thing ive found about the /delegatefaction command if youre a colonel
use
/delegatefaction 150 [delegatee]
/delegatefaction 150 [delegatee]
/delegatefaction 50 [delegatee]
/delegatefaction 50 [delegatee]
sometimes you'll be able to clean out a whole 350 this way, most of the time you get 300 and then some of the time you clear out 250. either way you get within 50 of the faction minimum every time doing this
dubious, master smuggler, naritus
*** UPDATE ***
They moved some stuff around on the recruiter menu. If you have the "go covert" option, you can use this:
/conversationstart;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse1;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse3;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse0;
/conversationstop;
/pause .5
However...after the 99th transfer in a 150-transfer deal I had earlier tonight, my "covert" option went away...so I had to modify the macro to reflect the new position of the "resign" option...
/conversationstart;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse4;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse3;
/pause .5;
/ui action conversationResponse0;
/conversationstop;
/pause .5
"resign" would be conversationResponse5while you still have the "covert" option available...
ok, i got 2 problems now. i can no longer use a recruiter to go Covert as the option just isnt ther & with the item decay now in htis is a pain in the ass.
also /delegate [client] ### doesnt work anymore. i get a message saying something along the lines of you must target the person, or that is not a targetable object, which basically means u cant AFK transfer points anymore, which is seriously annoying!!!
any1 got help or a work-round for this?
Well...I figured out why the Covert option goes away...
If you click to go Covert, then confirm that YES, you do want to go Covert...you lose that option from the menu.
I can also confirm that the syntax for /delegatefaction is screwed. You now have to target the person you want to /delegatefaction to in order to make the transfer. This makes the macro basically useless...unless you take the /delegatefaction line out and just use it to buy the points...then write a second, shorter macro to just /del ### and switch targets back and forth between the recruiter and your customer.
Another /delegatefaction bug is that it tries to execute TWICE ...even though you only issue it ONCE.
I reported all of this in a thread here:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=849282
And PMed Thunderheart about it.
Hopefully, we can get some sort of response.